Resonse to "OneTrueChurch" on Sedevacantism I
PART 2: www.youtube.com "It is also generally held, and rightly, that questions of dogmatic fact, in regard to which definite certainty is required for the safe custody and interpretation of revealed truth, may be determined infallibly by the Church. Such questions, for example, would be: whether a certain pope is legitimate..." (Toner, Patrick. "Infallibility." TheCatholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910) "This was what might be described as an extra-constitutional crisis; and, as the Church has a right in such circumstances to remove reasonable doubt and provide a pope whose claims would be indisputable, even an acephalous council, supported by the body of bishops throughout the world, was competent to meet this altogether exceptional emergency without thereby setting up a precedent that could be erected into a regular constitutional rule, as theGallicans wrongly imagined." (Toner, Patrick. "Infallibility." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910) "A similar exceptional situation might arise were a pope to become a public heretic, ie, were he publicly and officially to teach some doctrine clearly opposed to what has been defined as de fide catholicâ. But in this case many theologians hold that no formal sentence of deposition would be required, as, by becoming a public heretic, the pope would ipso facto cease to be pope. This, however, is a hypothetical case which has never actually occurred; even the case ... Promotional Ames Temper Snow Shovels !8!# New Cookware Essentials
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